Regional chairs, parliamentary candidates and official representatives of five major political parties in Turkey committed to reversing their country’s dramatic downward slide in press freedom during meetings with the International Press Institute (IPI) last week. IPI Turkey Advocacy Coordinator Caroline Stockford met in Istanbul last Friday with representatives of the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP), […]

On June 7 to 8, 2018, ARTICLE 19, the International Press Institute (IPI) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) observed the fifth hearing in the case against 11 journalists and columnists writing for Zaman newspaper at the Serious Crimes Court in Istanbul. The journalists face various coup or terror-related charges, with five facing aggravated life sentences. […]

On Wednesday June 6, as part of a weeklong visit to Finland focused on the issue of online harassment of journalists, IPI visited three newsrooms in the southwestern city of Turku, the country’s oldest city and former capital. IPI went to Turku to learn how online harassment affects journalists outside Europe’s large capital cities, and […]

“Maybe what I am doing is out and out treachery”, Murat said. Murat – who identifies politically as a socialist – is a journalist at one of Turkey’s most fiercely pro-government newspapers. He referred to the paper as an “ideological bulletin” and a “rag”. “Nobody even reads it; we just fill the pages”, he added. […]